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Today sees the start of my favourite time of year: Wimbledon fortnight. And with Andy Murray defending his title and the intrigue surrounding his appointment of 2006 Ladies Champion, Amélie Mauresmo, there's a lot to be excited about. What does...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
According to the results of the 4th Annual Effie Effectiveness Index, Effie Worldwide has named the Omnicom Group's BBDO as the most effective agency network in the world. These results are determined by the performance of the world's major agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the 61st Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity draws to a close, Ogilvy & Mather head home with top honours, having been named 'Network of the Year' for the third consecutive year. This is the cherry on top of an incredibly successful week of Ogilvy...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By way of distraction from the work I was supposed to be doing today, I clicked on a link to a piece of writing on a reputable music website. About a paragraph into the article an unexpected thing happened. The webpage was suddenly obscured by a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
John Mescall has been named as the new global executive creative director at McCann's headquarters in New York. The move will see him relocated from McCann Australia, where he has served as executive creative director since October 2011. The move is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Soft drinks and shower gel. Heavy machinery and hats. A film franchise and manly cologne. At bluemarlin, we believe that all brands have the innate potential to stretch their identity into certain foreign categories. The right positioning and a...
Posted by: bluemarlin
Publicis Worldwide announced yesterday that they will be partnering with Google and magazine publisher Conde Nast to launch a new end-to-end premium marketing service called 'La Maison' (“The house” in English). The service is aimed at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week I was asked to blog about the World Cup. I do not care for the World Cup. Not very much anyway. I hate those stupid flags that people stick in their car windows, reminding everyone of all the wasted excitement, hopes and dreams which the...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
In the first of a stream of new hires and appointments announced over the past week, London-based agency, AMV BBDO has named the creative team of Mike Crowe and Rob Messeter from adam&eveDDB as creative partners. Together, they will be running some...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Southeast Asian online gaming brand Garena plan to capitalise on the football mania created by the 2014 World Cup, hyping the free EA Sports multiplayer football game, FIFA Online 3 with the help of Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand. Garena was launched in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In much the same way as cinemas now use the lure of movies to sell popcorn at vast profit, so the World Cup can be seen as deploying football games as a lure to sell enormous quantities of advertising. Which is absolutely fine by me as I find...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
- RAPP wins combined media and creative brand account - Includes offline, online and PPC UK brand media and ATL creative London, 18th June 2014: Guide Dogs has appointed RAPP to handle the combined media and creative accounts for its new integrated...
Posted by: RAPP
Marketing communication agency, RPM, has been commissioned to develop a campaign to promote Cancer Research UK's ongoing partnership with Nivea Sun. The roaming campaign will be a part of the wider, 'thermally activated' media campaign, which Nivea...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, on the 2nd day of the annual Cannes Lions Festival, Ogilvy & Mather scored a staggering 34 wins. In total, Ogilvy won 4 Gold Lions, 11 Silver Lions, and 19 Bronze Lions, bringing the network's total up to 70 Lions so far at this year's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, I wrote a blog post entitled, Why on earth do I need a copywriter? I speak English and own a computer. As I'd hoped, the blog caught the attention of a lot of you - but not just copywriters, as it turned out. From designers to marketing...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Ever since it was re-branded as the 'Creativity Conference', opening the doors for more than just advertisers, The Cannes Lions (colloquially referred to as “The Academy Awards of the advertising world) has gone from strength to strength, year...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Qorvis MSLGROUP, the Publicis Groupe's strategic communications and engagement group, has named Colleen Wilber as its new vice president. Wilber is renowned as one of the best media professionals in the business, with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It may have taken a few months... but we have finished tackling one of the hardest subjects in the workplace, the paycheck. We have exposed the elephant in the room by asking tough questions, collecting data, and analysing opinions. Inside you will...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
Nationwide, the American mutual insurance company, announced last week that it had selected Ogilvy & Mather New York to handle the creative advertising work for their new marketing agreement with Peyton Manning, the quarterback for the Denver...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced over the weekend that singer, songwriter, actress and pop culture icon, Courtney Love, will feature at the 8th Annual Legends of Music Seminar, presented by Grey, the global advertising and marketing agency. The seminar will be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A ground-breaking ceremony has been held for the Hankook Technodome, a state-of-the-art new research and development facility for one of the world’s leading tyre manufacturers. The new centre is located in Daejeon, at the heart of Asia’s...
Posted by: Foster + Partners
Saatchi & Saatchi London have utilised the skills of notorious internet prankster, Rahat, to launch a new integrated, multichannel campaign promoting the Toyota Aygo. The campaign is entitled, “Go Fun Yourself,” and is a Pan-European...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Grey Group announced yesterday that they have agreed to acquire a majority stake in the largest independent advertising agency in Peru, Circus Peru SA (known colloquially as simply “Circus”). The Grey Group is owned by holding company...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Since an art director colleague introduced me to Banksy many years ago, I’ve enjoyed his stuff enormously. In that time he has painted throughout the world, from Sydney to Camden, LA to Palestine. The art critics bemoan him - too obvious, too...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced yesterday that TBWA has been appointed as the global strategic and creative agency partner for Sotheby's, the fine art auctions and private sales corporation based in New York. The agency's London office will be leading the account,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett is using real job seekers in a new campaign for Fifth Third Bank. The campaign aims to help people find work via the bank's reemployment program, a concept which evolved from their partnership with the national reemployment solutions...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ogilvy & Mather China have been breathing new life into used Coca-Cola bottles in Vietnam by freely distributing 40,000 modified bottle tops, which can transform any plastic bottle of coke into one of 16 different tools, giving it a “2nd...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Every year, Leo Burnett releases their predictions for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and have an astonishing track record with these predictions, with more than 84% accuracy. This year is no different, as recently Leo Burnett...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nobody likes being patronised. Even small infants boil with fury when some dough-faced adult leers into their pushchair and makes 'woo-woo' noises at them. Probably. I think being patronised takes us back to school, when we were bound by the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In a move that is far from surprising, given their relationship with the Conservative Party, M&C Saatchi have been named as advisors on Better Together's campaign, which urges people to say “No” to Scottish independence. M&C Saatchi will...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I'm busy. Very busy. And that's a good thing in the world of any freelancer. If there's one part of the “job” I find arduous, it's the touting for work. I don't mind the networking, as long as there's a nice finger buffet and a reasonable...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Yesterday, it was announced that Natalie Lam has been appointed as executive creative director of Razorfish, at the agency's headquarters in Times Square, New York. Razorfish is a part of the Publicis Groupe holding company, and is one of the world's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Attention creators of excellent interactive work, you have until Friday 13th June to enter this years' Lovie Awards! The mission of the Lovie Awards is to honour the best of the EU Web across Websites, Online Advertising, Internet Video, Mobile &...
Posted by: Christie H.Kristensen
From Cicero to Aubrey Beardsley, human beings have never had to look too far for individuals touched by the hand of creative genius. But finding intellects so inspired, profound and insightful they actually manage to predict the future, is more of a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced last week that McCann has hired two new global executive creative directors in the shape of James Dawson-Hollis and Bill Wright, both of whom join McCann's New York office from Ogilvy West in Los Angeles, where they were co-chief...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At last weeks 46th Annual Effie Awards, Ogilvy & Mather walked away with top honours for Unilever's “Winning Back Dove Love” campaign for Dove Real Beauty Sketches. It was revealed as the winner of the 'Grand Effie' (effectively the 'best...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns